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Porphyrias : Causes

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Causes could include:
Normally, the body makes heme in a multi-step process. Porphyrins are made during several steps of this process.
Source:ADAM
Date:March 2, 2009
Neurological symptoms, including confusion and hallucinations, can lead to an initial suspicion of psychiatric disease. Diagnosis is more easily accomplished in cases in which non-specific symptoms appear in combination with symptoms more specific...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Neurological symptoms, including confusion and hallucinations, can lead to an initial suspicion of psychiatric disease. Diagnosis is more easily accomplished in cases in which non-specific symptoms appear in combination with symptoms more specific...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Depending on the array of symptoms presented, the possibility of porphyria may not immediately come to the physician's mind. In the absence of a family history of porphyria, some symptoms of porphyria, such as abdominal pain and vomiting, may be a...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Neurological symptoms, including confusion and hallucinations, can lead to an initial suspicion of psychiatric disease. Diagnosis is more easily accomplished in cases in which non-specific symptoms appear in combination with symptoms more specific...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
Neurological symptoms, including confusion and hallucinations, can lead to an initial suspicion of psychiatric disease. Diagnosis is more easily accomplished in cases in which non-specific symptoms appear in combination with symptoms more specific...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Genetics is the study of heredity, the process in which a parent passes certain genes onto their children. A person''s appearance-- height, hair color, skin color, and eye color-- are determined by genes.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 20, 2008
Detailed information on genetics and pregnancy Genetics is the study of the patterns of inheritance - how traits and characteristics are passed from parents to their children. Genes are formed from segments of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecule that encodes genetic information in the cells. DNA controls the structure, function, and behavior of cells and can create exact copies of itself.
Source:StayWell
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